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ntnuiotenergy / OpenEMPIRE

Stochastic linear program for investments in the European power system
https://openempire.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Ramp rate nuclear energy #37

Open martinhjel opened 5 months ago

martinhjel commented 5 months ago

According to OECD NEA A the ramp rate of nuclear reactors are 3-5% per min. So why is the ramp rate for nuclear defined as 30% per hour in the europe_v51 dataset?

Suggest updating this to 85%, comparable to Gas CCGT or extend Empire to handle minimum production level for thermal plants and set it to 100%.

Additional resource: Factsheet Load following capabilities of nuclear power plants

martinhjel commented 4 months ago

First task could be to check how big impact the ramp rate has on the results, and perhaps make it an optional feature of empire.